Improved blacking-brush



NPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHANIEL G. WHI'IMORE, OF MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELFAND EDWARD L. DAY, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVED BLACKlNG-BRUSH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,472, dated May 1,1866.

To all whom tt may concern: v

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL G. WHIT- MORE, of Mansfield, in the countyof Bristol and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful.Improvement in Blacking- Brushes, ot' which the followingis a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings, making part of this specitication, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view ot a blacking brush with my improvement appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective -view of my improvement detached.

The operation of polishing` boots and shoes or other articles, such asstoves, te., when performed with a blacking-brush ot' the ordinaryconstruction, is attended with inconvenience, and the hands of theperson using it are liable to be soiled by contact with the blacking, toavoid which is the object ot' my invention, which consists in providingthe brush with a sliding drawer, which contains the blacking.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention,I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A represents an ordinary blacking-brush, in whichis formed a rectangular opening for the recept-ion of a drawer, a, whichis filled with paste blacking and is lnade to slide in and out by takinghold of the knob b.

Instead ot' the ordinary blacking for polishing boots or shoes lbeingplaced within the drawer a, it may contain blacking suitable for stovesor any other description 'ot blacking required by the article to bepolished. VA

spring or other device may be employed, it' necessary, to keep thedrawer within the brush when not in use.

By placing' the blacking within the brush, where it may always be foundwhen required to be used, the loss ot' time occasioned by keeping thebrush and blacking in separate places is thereby avoided.

A brush so constructed enables one to use it without soiling the hands,and on account of its being compactly placed together forms a veryconvenient article for the purposes above described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A blacking-brush, A, provided with a slidl ing drawer, a, substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

NATHAN IEL G. WHITMORE. Witnesses:

NATHANIEL WHI'IMOEE,

JULIA F. WHI'IMORE.

